{"id":6068,"date":"2012-10-14T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2012\/10\/14\/baby-girl-or-boy-sibling-to-hank-and-stella\/"},"modified":"2014-06-18T09:49:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T13:49:58","slug":"baby-girl-or-boy-sibling-to-hank-and-stella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2012\/10\/14\/baby-girl-or-boy-sibling-to-hank-and-stella\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl or Boy, Sibling to Hank and Stella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kinsey writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here we go. \u00a0You&#8217;ve helped me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2009\/06\/25\/baby-boy-or-girl-p\/\">twice<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2011\/04\/11\/baby-naming-issue-will-stella-get-too-popular\/\">before<\/a> so I&#8217;m counting on you again! \u00a0This is the biggest predicament we&#8217;ve been in though. \u00a0 I&#8217;m pregnant with our third child (gender will be a surprise) and we are absolutely clueless on girl options for our baby!! \u00a0 \u00a0Neither of us like anything at all! \u00a0We have a 3 yr old boy, Joseph Hank (goes by Hank), and a 14 month old girl, Stella Rose. \u00a0Both kids have family names (Joseph and Rose) and we are thinking of one of the following family names for middle if baby is a girl: Leigh, Lauren, Clark<\/p>\n<p>Some things to think about:<br \/>\nWe like different, without being too weird.<br \/>\nI love the double L in Stella and think it would be neat to find another girl name with that, but definitely not a must.<br \/>\nObviously we like old school names.<br \/>\nI like girly names, but still with spunk!<\/p>\n<p>Suggest away!<br \/>\nThanks!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If the baby is a boy, it would be fun to find a name that parallels Hank&#8217;s: a name like Joseph, followed by a name like Hank. Something like William Gus.<\/p>\n<p>Names like Joseph:<\/p>\n<p>Andrew<br \/>\nDaniel<br \/>\nDavid<br \/>\nMatthew<br \/>\nMichael<br \/>\nNicholas<br \/>\nSamuel<br \/>\nWilliam<\/p>\n<p>Names like Hank:<\/p>\n<p>Abe<br \/>\nDean<br \/>\nGus<br \/>\nIke<br \/>\nMack<br \/>\nMitch<br \/>\nMoe<br \/>\nOtto<br \/>\nSully<\/p>\n<p>A few sample combinations:<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Dean<br \/>\nDaniel Mack<br \/>\nDavid Abe<br \/>\nMatthew Otto<br \/>\nMichael Sully<br \/>\nNicholas Mitch<br \/>\nSamuel Abe<br \/>\nWilliam Gus<\/p>\n<p>Or, if you&#8217;d rather not call him by his middle name, I think I would choose a first name that ideally sounded like both Joseph and Hank: Samuel, for example, which goes well with Joseph, but then Sam goes well with Hank. Or Nicholas: Joseph\/Nicholas, Hank\/Nick.<\/p>\n<p>If the baby is a girl, I suggest the name Harriet. It has a double R, and I think it&#8217;s great with Stella and Hank. More suggestions:<\/p>\n<p>Alice<br \/>\nBonnie<br \/>\nCharlotte (Lottie, Charlie)<br \/>\nCordelia (Delia)<br \/>\nFrances (Frankie)<br \/>\nGeorgia (Georgie)<br \/>\nHazel<br \/>\nHenrietta<br \/>\nIvy<br \/>\nLouisa<br \/>\nLouise<br \/>\nLucille (Lucy)<br \/>\nLydia<br \/>\nMattea (Mattie)<br \/>\nMilly<br \/>\nMolly<br \/>\nRuby<br \/>\nMatilda (Tilly)<br \/>\nPhoebe<br \/>\nTess<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name update!<\/strong> Kinsey writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Baby #3 is a GIRL and we are thrilled!\u00a0 Branum Everleigh Powell was born today, March 27th, and we love her name!\u00a0 Branum (bran-um) is my maiden name and my parents only had daughters, so we thought even though it might take some people getting used to it, we love her unique name. My dad is thrilled for it to be carried on ;). And my sister&#8217;s middle name is Leigh so putting a spin on that for the middle seemed just perfect to us too! Thanks for all of your suggestions!\u00a0 Our other top choices were Millicent and Lucy, but we couldn&#8217;t pass up family&#8230;<br \/>\nCheers!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Branum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7321\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Branum.jpg\" alt=\"Branum\" width=\"210\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Branum.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Branum-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kinsey writes: Here we go. \u00a0You&#8217;ve helped me twice before so I&#8217;m counting on you again! \u00a0This is the biggest predicament we&#8217;ve been in though. \u00a0 I&#8217;m pregnant with our third child (gender will be a surprise) and we are absolutely clueless on girl options for our baby!! \u00a0 \u00a0Neither of us like anything at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1zS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6068"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9390,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions\/9390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}